LG Electronics CEO William Cho said on Tuesday that the company was open to equity investment and joint ventures with over-the-top content companies.In the TV market today, FAST, or free ad-supported streaming TV, platforms were gaining attention, the CEO stressed during the electronics maker’s annu

Display equipment maker Sunic System expects to win orders from BOE for Gen 8 OLED deposition equipment this year, its CEO said on Monday.Sunic System CEO Park Jae-gyu said during the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting that it expects a positive result in its competition to supply deposition equ

Whether demand for TVs recovers this year in Europe will determine the outlook of the global TV panel market this year, a senior analyst at Omdia said on Wednesday.Inflation and the war in Ukraine have dented demand for TVs in Europe, Omdia senior principal analyst JinHan Ricky Park said Korea Displ

Samsung Display said on Sunday that it has begun installation of equipment in its latest Gen 8.6 OLED production line to be set up at its Asan plant in South Korea.The new A6 line will be built by converting its existing L8 line, which manufactured liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, and start prod

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has brought down the line width/line spacing (L/S) of its chip package down to 5 micrometers.This was to respond to an increase in I/Os of chips, Samsung Electro-Mechanics group head Woo Seok Yang said during the SMT&PCB Tech Conference hosted by TheElec in Suwon, south of

LG Innotek is considering developing glass substrates for use in chip packaging, a company official said.LG Innotek general manager Jaeman Park said on Wednesday during the SMT&PCB Tech Conference hosted by TheElec in Suwon that glass is likely to become the main ingredient in the future for substra

LG Innotek said on Tuesday that it has developed a camera module that integrates a heater so that it can defrost the lens to keep it functioning during the cold.The South Korean parts maker said the module was aimed at autonomous vehicles and it is hoping to start production in 2027.During the cold

Samsung Display, BOE, and Tianma have proposed their prices to Apple for OLED panels aimed at iPhone SE4 that will launch early in 2025, TheElec has learned.Cupertino has so far only used LCD panels for its budget iPhone line but it is planning to upgrade this to OLED next year.Sources said Samsung

Samsung Display will install its first evaporator for use at Gen 8 OLED production next month, TheElec has learned.The machine was made by Japan’s Canon Tokki and will be used to manufacture Gen 8 OLED, which the South Korean display panel maker aims to use to make OLED panels aimed at PCs and table

Samsung Display may use a different method to make the bezels of its foldable OLED panels this year, TheElec has learned.The display panel maker is considering using inkjet printing to make the bezels of the new panels that will be on Samsung’s foldable phones launching later this year, sources said

Samsung Display will start mass production of OLED panels for use in iPads, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display panel maker, the main supplier of OLED panels to Cupertino for iPhones, will start production for the 11-inch model of the popular tablet, sources said.The panels are low-temperat

LS Cable & System Asia, the largest cable maker in Vietnam, is entering the rare-earth mineral market, TheElec has learned.The company plans to collaborate with a local company, and then supply the minerals to affiliate LS MnM that will smelt them, sources said.Rare-earth minerals refer to 17 heavy

Samsung Display has rejected Kateeva’s RGB inkjet equipment that it originally planned to use in the production of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.The equipment, which domestic firm HB Solution is the distributor of in South Korea, received a “Fail” grade last month in Samsung Display’s testing, source

LG Electronics said it expects to ship fewer OLED TVs this year compared to last year due to an inadequate supply of OLED panels in the market from the economic slowdownThe South Korean electronics maker said on Friday that TVs were sensitive to consumer income and the recent economic slowdown has c

There was increasing interest within Samsung Display in technologies that can be applied to manufacture OLED panels without the use of fine metal masks (FMM), TheElec has learned.This interest was sparked after the Society of Information Display conference held in May this year where new production

A researcher who previously worked for Samsung Display has been arrested and indicted for the allegation that they leaked trade secrets related to OLED technologies to China.The unnamed researcher was in China five months prior but returned voluntarily to face the charges of leaking trade secrets un

Samsung was considering applying the waterdrop hinge that it introduced with the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 on its foldable notebook launching next year, TheElec has learned.Waterdrop hinge allowed the company’s latest foldables to have the sides folded more tightly while reducing the crease in the

Samsung’s shipment rate for its latest foldable phones Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 were 10% higher than their predecessors, TheElec has learned.As of mid-September, the tech giant had over 8 weeks of inventory left for the two models, which means they are selling steadily.Samsung orders part

Solus Advanced Materials said on Monday that it has received approval for its thin foils from memory chip giant SK Hynix.It will be the first case that a domestic copper foil company supplies such a product to SK Hynix.The thin foils, which are ultra-thin at 2 micrometers, are aimed at use in a modi

BOE had the second-highest number of patents related to display panels registered in the US, according to a South Korean lawyer.The Chinese display giant filed and registered the second largest number of patents from 2013 to August 2023, only behind Samsung Display, Dana Patent Law Firm Senior Partn